Washing-machine.



No. 709mm. V Patented Sept. 16, I902.

' M. E. 'KELLY.

WASHING MACHINE.

(Application filed Dec. 7, 1901. oooooooo UNITED ST TES PATENT FFICE.

MARY ELLEN KELLY, OF JACKSON, OHIO.

WASHING -MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,016, dated.September 16, 1902. Application filed December 7 1901. Serial No.85,041. No model.) 7 i To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, MARY ELLEN KELLY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Jackson, in the county of Jackson and State of Ohio, haveinvented a new and useful ashing-Machiue, of which the followingis aspeci- My invention is an improvement in Washing-machines, and has forits object to pro vide an improved device having a tub or vessel inwhich is supported slatted buckets that merged in the water and thenelevated, so as to cause the water to percolate through the clothes, andthereby cleansing them. In order that these slatted buckets may be easyof operation, I connect them to the opposite sides of a rock-shaft thatis journaled in the tub and which is adapted to berocked toalternatively dip the buckets in the water.

A further object of my invention is to arrange pounders or plungers tooperate within the buckets and upon the clothes, as will be fullydescribed'hereinafter.

With these and other objects in view my invention consists in certaindetails of construction and novelties of combinatiomas'will be fullydescribedin the following specification and pointed out in the claims,reference being had to the drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspectiveview of my improvement. I Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof,and Fig. 3 is anirregular longitudinal section taken about on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention I employ a tub or vessel A, suitablymounted upon legs A and having one end provided with a lid A Centrallyjo urnaled in the tub is a rock-shaft B, having arms 0 projecting fromeither side thereof, to whose outer ends are pivotally held slattedbuckets D. A rock-shaft E is journaled in suitable brackets E directlyabove the shaft B and has one end provided with a crank-handle F and itsopposite end with an arm E to the ends of which are con nectedpitman-rods E Whose opposite ends are secured to treadles E arrangedupon a suitable bracket-plate E. To the central portion of the shaft'isconnected oppositely-projecting arms G, whose outer ends have connectedthereto rods H, carrying plungerpounders I, which are preferably formedof short cylindrical arms, whose outer ends terminate insphericalportions I. These pounders are of such size to conveniently operate inthe slatted buckets D, and in operation the bucketsafter a suitablequantity of water has been placed in the tub and the treadle operated torock the shaft E, which alternately at the same time the plungersoperate orpress the clothes, which forcibly causes the water topercolate thereth rough and quickly and thoroughly cleanse them. thatthis operation is very simple and requires but a short time foroperation, andin practice Imay make the bottom of the tub of metal, sothat the water in the tub may be heated by placing agas or oil stovethereunder. By arranging the crank-handle upon the opposite end of theshaftvto which the treadles are connected the said shaft may be rockedby hand, and thus relieve the operator should she become tired ofoperating the treadles.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' 1. A washing-machine comprising a tub or receptacle a shaft journaledtherein and having arms projecting from either side thereof, bucketspivotally connected to the outer end of said arms, brackets arrangedupon the tub and having a shaft journaledtherein, arms projectinglaterally from the shaft and having rods connected to their outer ends,the lower ends thereof being provided with plungers working in thebuckets and means for rocking the last-named shaft, substantially as andfor the purpose described.

2. Ina washing-machine, the combination of a tub or receptacle, a shaftjournaled therein, arms projecting from the said shaft, buckets carriedby the arms, brackets secured to the tub, a. shaft journaled in thebrackets, arms projecting from the last-named shaft, plungers connectedto the arms and working in said buckets and means connectedto the saidlast-named shaft for operating it and the said plungers, substantiallyas shown and described.

MARY ELLEN KELLY.

I WVitnesses: T. E. DAVIS,

CHAS. SMITH.

articles to be washed are placed within the forces the buckets to dipinto the water, and

It will thus be seen

